Connections Literary Series: Author Merideth Taylor

February 24, 2025
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Online

Portrait of an elderly woman with short hair, wearing a colorful embroidered top and a turquoise necklace, smiling softly against a natural background.Join Merideth Taylor in conversation with CSM English Professor Caitlyn Socrates discussing African American history in Southern Maryland.

Taylor will be reading excerpts from her book, "Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance," a well-researched, richly imagined, and illustrated narrative of the everyday lives of people enslaved on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland.

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About Merideth Taylor

Merideth M. Taylor is Professor Emerita of Theater and Dance at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a founding member of the African and African Diaspora and Women Studies programs at the college. She is the author of "Listening in: Echoes and Artifacts from Maryland’s Mother County;" co-editor of "In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation;" and screenwriter/director of the documentaries "With All Deliberate Speed: One High School’s Story" and Telly Award-winning "Historic Sotterley: Talking and Walking Common Ground."


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